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Trump EPA Is a Toothless Friend of Polluting Industries, Analysis Shows [9]

"The EPA’s retreat from its role guarding clean air and water will have lasting effects on public health, critics fear."

Chemicals [10]
Climate Change [11]
Conflict/Corruption [12]
Economy & Business [13]
Energy & Fuel [14]
Environmental Health [15]
Environmental Politics [16]
Laws & Regulations [17]
Pollution [18]
Public [19]
National (U.S.) [20]
Source: Inside Climate News [21], 09/02/2026
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Power Plant Endangerment Repeal Enters White House Review [22]

"The White House is reviewing a new proposal to permanently end EPA’s regulation of power plants’ carbon emissions."

Air [23]
Chemicals [10]
Climate Change [11]
Conflict/Corruption [12]
Energy & Fuel [14]
Environmental Politics [16]
Laws & Regulations [17]
Pollution [18]
Technology [24]
Public [19]
National (U.S.) [20]
Source: E&E News [25], 09/02/2026
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Fervo And Google Sign World’s Largest Deal For Next-Gen Geothermal Power [26]

"The geothermal startup will supply 400 MW from its Cape Station project to a Google data center in Utah. An initial phase of the project will come online this fall."

Climate Change [11]
Energy & Fuel [14]
Environmental Health [15]
Infrastructure [27]
Natural Resources [28]
Technology [24]
Water & Oceans [29]
Public [19]
National (U.S.) [20]
Source: Canary Media [30], 09/02/2026
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Smithsonian Changes Course, Will Put Latino Museum In Existing Building [31]

"The Smithsonian Institution announced Monday that it will put its National Museum of the American Latino in a 145-year-old building on the National Mall instead of constructing a new one."

Diversity [32]
Environmental Justice [33]
Environmental Politics [16]
Government [34]
Journalism & Media [35]
Laws & Regulations [17]
People & Population [36]
Public [19]
National (U.S.) [20]
Source: Washington Post [37], 09/02/2026
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When Plastic Companies Write The Lesson Plans [38]

"The plastics industry is offering schools curricula that cast plastics as safe, recyclable, and a source of good jobs. Critics say it’s propaganda."

Chemicals [10]
Energy & Fuel [14]
Environmental Politics [16]
Government [34]
Journalism & Media [35]
Laws & Regulations [17]
People & Population [36]
Science [39]
Waste [40]
Water & Oceans [29]
Public [19]
National (U.S.) [20]
Source: Grist [41], 09/02/2026
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Secretive Deals May Cut Billions From US Global Health Spending: Analysis [42]

"The Trump administration is working to cut global health funding to developing nations by tens of billions of dollars by 2030, according to a new analysis of the secretive agreements U.S. officials have pursued with more than a dozen governments to date."

Agriculture [43]
Conflict/Corruption [12]
Consumer [44]
Disasters [45]
Environmental Health [15]
Environmental Justice [33]
Environmental Politics [16]
Food [46]
Health [47]
Infrastructure [27]
Journalism & Media [35]
Laws & Regulations [17]
People & Population [36]
Technology [24]
Water & Oceans [29]
Public [19]
National (U.S.) [20]
International [48]
Source: Washington Post [49], 09/01/2026
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The CDC Hasn’t Added 2 Deaths To Its Measles Database. Here’s Why. [50]

"The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is excluding two deaths reported by Pennsylvania from its weekly updates of a national measles death tally, a decision that came from new CDC director Erica Schwartz, according to three former and current officials familiar with the matter who spoke on the condition of anonymity for fear of retaliation."

Conflict/Corruption [12]
Environmental Health [15]
Environmental Justice [33]
Environmental Politics [16]
Government [34]
Health [47]
Journalism & Media [35]
Laws & Regulations [17]
People & Population [36]
Science [39]
Public [19]
National (U.S.) [20]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [51]
Source: Washington Post [52], 09/01/2026
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California Sues Over Trump Deal to Cancel Wind Project Lease [53]

"California sued the Trump administration and Golden State Wind over the federal government’s deal with the company to cancel an offshore wind project lease, alleging the transaction violated multiple federal laws."

Activism [54]
Climate Change [11]
Disasters [45]
Energy & Fuel [14]
Environmental Politics [16]
Fish & Fisheries [55]
Infrastructure [27]
Laws & Regulations [17]
Natural Resources [28]
Pollution [18]
Technology [24]
Water & Oceans [29]
Public [19]
National (U.S.) [20]
California [56]
Source: Bloomberg Environment [57], 09/01/2026
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Principal Saved 900 Students Before His School Was Washed Away in Nepal [58]

"Rajendra Dawadi had less than 15 minutes to act on a warning of approaching floodwaters. His swift evacuation plan saved hundreds of lives."

Climate Change [11]
Disasters [45]
Economy & Business [13]
Energy & Fuel [14]
Environmental Health [15]
Infrastructure [27]
People & Population [36]
Water & Oceans [29]
Public [19]
Asia [59]
Source: New York Times [60], 09/01/2026
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Big Bend Border Wall Preparations Paused by Texas Federal Judge [61]

"Construction on — or at least preparations for — a border wall through Texas’s Big Bend National Park and the larger Big Bend region have been halted through Sept. 15, and possibly longer, a federal judge said from the bench Friday."

Biodiversity [62]
Chemicals [10]
Climate Change [11]
Disasters [45]
Energy & Fuel [14]
Environmental Health [15]
Environmental Politics [16]
Fish & Fisheries [55]
Infrastructure [27]
Laws & Regulations [17]
Natural Resources [28]
Pollution [18]
Transportation [63]
Water & Oceans [29]
Public [19]
National (U.S.) [20]
California [56]
Source: Bloomberg Environment [64], 09/01/2026
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Texas And Louisiana Could Get Hit By Fast-Spin-Up Tropical Storm Tuesday [65]

"Tropical Storm Warning flags were flying today on the Gulf Coast of southeast Texas and southeast Louisiana ahead of the expected arrival on Tuesday of Tropical Depression Five (TD 5), which was designated a tropi�cal depression at 2 p.m. EDT Monday. As of 11 a.m. EDT Monday, TD 5 was predicted by the National Hurricane Center to become a tropical storm before its center reaches the Texas-Louisiana coast on Tuesday afternoon. The next name on the Atlantic list is Edouard."

Climate Change [11]
Disasters [45]
Energy & Fuel [14]
Environmental Politics [16]
People & Population [36]
Science [39]
Water & Oceans [29]
Public [19]
National (U.S.) [20]
Source: Yale Climate Connections [66], 09/01/2026
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US-Venezuela Oil Deal Won't Lower Your Gas Prices. What You Need To Know [67]

"The Trump administration announced an agreement with the Venezuelan government on Friday to develop a vast amount of Venezuela's oil reserves.

The U.S. government says it is entering into a joint venture with a private Venezuelan company, according to an official who spoke to NPR on the condition of anonymity because they are not authorized to speak publicly about the deal. The Trump administration says the U.S. would get 55% of the oil from the joint venture. That's equivalent to about 65 billion barrels of oil that's under the ground.
Climate Change [11]
Conflict/Corruption [12]
Consumer [44]
Economy & Business [13]
Energy & Fuel [14]
Laws & Regulations [17]
Military [68]
People & Population [36]
Pollution [18]
Water & Oceans [29]
Public [19]
National (U.S.) [20]
Central America & the Caribbean [69]
South America [70]
Source: NPR [71], 09/01/2026
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Trump’s EPA on a Mission to Ease Air Rules by 2028: Explained [72]

"The EPA still has unfinished business on a handful of major air rules, which environmentalists fear will endanger Americans’ health and worsen the climate crisis."

Air [23]
Chemicals [10]
Climate Change [11]
Consumer [44]
Economy & Business [13]
Energy & Fuel [14]
Environmental Health [15]
Environmental Politics [16]
Government [34]
Laws & Regulations [17]
People & Population [36]
Public [19]
National (U.S.) [20]
Source: Bloomberg Environment [73], 09/01/2026
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Yellowstone Park, Montana Continue Easing Fishing Restrictions [74]

"Yellowstone National Park and Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks have announced the easing of fishing restrictions on rivers as water temperatures drop."

Biodiversity [62]
Climate Change [11]
Fish & Fisheries [55]
Laws & Regulations [17]
People & Population [36]
Water & Oceans [29]
Public [19]
National (U.S.) [20]
Mountain West (CO ID MT NV UT WY) [75]
Source: States Newsroom [76], 09/01/2026
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Wendell Berry, Writer Who Extolled America’s Agrarian Past, Dies at 92 [77]

"A Kentucky farmer, he railed against agribusiness and championed small family farms and the environment, winning widespread acclaim."

Activism [54]
Agriculture [43]
Biodiversity [62]
Environmental Politics [16]
Journalism & Media [35]
People & Population [36]
Religion, Faith and Spirituality [78]
Water & Oceans [29]
Public [19]
National (U.S.) [20]
Source: New York Times [79], 09/01/2026
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